Initial reports on Brandon Morrow‘s elbow cleanup were good and it seemed for a while as though he might be able to return ahead of schedule. But nothing is ever simple when you’re talking about a elbows, particularly when said elbow belongs to an oft-injured pitcher whose duties involve throwing the ball really hard in high-leverage situations.
So it didn’t come as much of a surprise when we found out last week that Morrow had been shut down after feeling some discomfort in the wake of a mound session. Jed Hoyer had spoken to 670 The Score about handling Morrow carefully even before the news broke and Theo Epstein shared recently that the closer might stay away from throwing for weeks yet.